Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Auriga (Aur)  ·  Contains:  IC 410  ·  NGC 1893
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IC 410 Tadpole Nebula, Richard Pattie
IC 410 Tadpole Nebula
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IC 410 Tadpole Nebula

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The Tadpole Nebula is another example of dust, gas, and excited atoms that resemble something from human experience. "Swimming" toward the nebular core from the lower left appear to be two tadpoles.

Partly obscured by foreground dust, the nebula itself surrounds NGC 1893, a young galactic cluster of stars that energizes the glowing gas. Composed of denser cooler gas and dust the tadpoles are around 10 light-years long, potentially sites of ongoing star formation. Sculpted by wind and radiation from the cluster stars, their tails trail away from the cluster's central region. IC 410 lies some 12,000 light-years away, toward the constellation Auriga. [Source: NASA]

Even though this is a bright nebula (mag 7.5), it still required 30-minute exposures for my equipment to get a reasonable image, longer than I've done before.

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IC 410 Tadpole Nebula, Richard Pattie